The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-04-23
HEATING THE EXPRESS TRAINS.
How Depew Proposes to do Away
With the Old-fashioned Stoves


From the Nelo York EUeninq san.
When a reporter stepped into the Presi-
dents office at the New York Central depot
he found Mr.. Depew in his working clothes
just like the rest of us. "Well, what's the
matter9" said he, genially.
"Oh, nothings the matter. l merely
want to know whether the steam car heat
ing arrangement moves satisfactorily, and
whether it will be extended to other trains
than the local Ones.n
well it operates well on the local trains
of six or seven cars. What it will do when
it is harnessed to fourteen cars remains to
be SEEM
Can. look at technical description of.
itg"
''Oh, yes You will find it in the Gen
eral Managers Office. Mr.. Toucey will
| show it to YOU"
The reporter, as he walked down the cor
rider, had time to note how well behaved a
| four-tracked railroad is; how genial and
pleasant it is, as if always making an after
dinner speech lie wondered how it added
itself up, and carried one to the next column /;
how it divided and multiplied itself without
| getting out Of temper; but concluded that
| the figuring was all done by machinery, so
that the officers had time to observe the
amenities of life, he proceeded to the Gen
| eral Managers room.
This is Mr.. Toucey," said the graceful
| young man who acted as usher If he
hadn't said so, and if he hadn't looked SO in
tensely truthful, the reporter would have
| concluded that he had stepped into the room
of good old Bishop Harris Just returned from
rousing campmeeting with the echoes of
the shouting of the brethren and sisters yet
lingering in his ears, for there he seemed to
sit, with great broad, round face, with a
| n n11pll hrOoHnf hot
/ had to scurry around through the whiskers
to see if the double chin couldn't take it in
| With merry twinkle in his eve, as il he
were saving to himself, ''if there is any fun
in this fellow I'm going to have al that
Depew has left, )" he asked, "What can l do
for your
"Well, they're slyly running Chauncey
Depew for President, and the people are
warming up on the subject, and thought
would drop in and see if you Were keeping
the heat up in your cars under the new
steam arrangement
"Now you are not in earnest, are you,
about that Presidential matterl"
"Oh yes; that is slightly. Mr. Depew
said that you would let me see the drawings
| of the steam apparatus
Certainly / will But see here, I'd like
well enough TO see Chauncey President of
the United States, but I'd awfully hate to
have him leave here"
The young man brought the plans, which
showed that the apparatus uses live steam
bv putting pipe in the dome of the locomo-
| tive, with a cutoff valve in the cab, to
which is attached reducing valve. From
said valve a small pipe passes beneath the
footboard of the locomotive, to which is Sc
cured a metallic Joint, which conforms TO
every motion of the iron horse. Under the
tender main pipe runs, carefully wrapped
50 as TO prevent condensation. On
4, Of fl,A A.ll, Z,
joint is screwed and strongly braced
to the tender frame. A continuous wrapped
pipe runs from one end to the other of the
cars, under the coach. On each end are
screwed metallic couplings. Valves to pre-.
vent steam blowing Off in the rear, should
the car be the rear one, are properly placed.
An angle valve is under the end of the seat
TO shut out of one car without cutting off
any other. The coupling is made Of metal,
and easily adjusts itself TO every motion of
the train.
Having studied all this out the reporter
asked: "Well, how does il workf
"Oh, we can heat with steam if we can
only catch on to 1t"
Docs it work well on the local trains,
and will it do on the larger trainsp
"You can heat anything with steam If
you only get nj it. But what we have to
master is how TO manage our through
trains. We drop a car or two at Syracuse.
another perhaps at Rochester, and one at
Rome. One goes TO st. Adams, and so ON.
Now suppose the other roads on which
those cars are switched don't have the same
heating apparatus as ours what them
"Ah, then. il isn't fully successful yet"
"Well suppose it's down 10 ten degrees
below zero and a woman and child take the
train. IL is waiting for them, but the engine
viii have 90 bc hitched on for forty minutes
before it-can heat that car. ! tell you the
III. l. ! -
heat Our cars with steam because IL will cost
us more money, but the contrary X the cnse,
We would save money by putting IN steam.
/ Tho trouble D. 30 warm that woman and
child. We shall DO our best. and hop. the
public win De- pleased but n won't do b.
let that woman and child franlr ~ death "